Has anybody else read the article in this months CPC on dream PC's?

Scan have come up and won the article with the 3XS Jelly Fish - Clicky

Nice little system if you have £9,774.99 kicking about....

I must confess, I struggle to see how they justify the extra £5k on top of some of the others. They use the 975 as opposed to the 920s, but they don't get much more out of it.

It's a bit ugly if you ask me, only running 200MHz faster than my 920 with half as much RAM. & £9k more expensive

I was also wondering where the money went, and I'm not half as up on the costs of a custom build as you guys.

I'm guess it's labour. The custom glass front & panel cutting isn't cheap.

True, they did appear to fab the case more or less entirely from scratch.
Do you think the cooling system they used was the most effective/efficient? If I read the piece right, they used a peltier system that was then itself water cooled which is then actively air cooled. Seems like a step too far to me.

I must confess I'm still not convinced, primarily because the side panel seems to be just an extension of the existing window (at least going by the photo on Scan's site).

A custom paint job doesn't cost that much either, at absolute max it would be a grand.

When they do these extreme PC's I cant imagine they ever expect to sell any do they? It looks like more of a marketing 'look what we can build' exercise.

I think that is probably the case, but so was the Bugatti Veyron.

Plus, remember this? I still think every other dream pc pales in comparison.

It's the man hours put into building it and cherry picking the best CPU from their stock. In their review CPC said they'd seen a price breakdown and thought it was reasonable.

Windows 7 Home Premium on a £10K PC? I would expect Ultimate for that price.

Yeah, but they were probably trying to keep the price inside £10k.

But why not just add and extra £100 to the total. Anyone looking to spend that money will want everything thrown in and will probably be prepared to chuck in another £100...

For 10K i'd expect a man to turn up with his OWN computer and read websites out to you, print out all the pictures to show you on glossy A3 and pour you glasses of Bollinger.

I have read the article and it states (somewhere) that there was a full month of none-stop labour went into this machine. I would imagine that they could knock the price down a little if they were making many, but of course- it ain't gonna happen.

Visually, I like it, although it isn't the best Scan Dream PC that I've seen. What it does show is that- yet again- that Scan really do know what they are doing when they build a system. Some of the other systems had one or more serious flaws which, as CPC point out, you wouldn't want to see on a system costing over £5K